[WBEL-users] monitoring strange behavior help

[Alon]

With respect to BB,.. that's a very expensive solution. That is if you 
intend to play by the rules and pay for the commercial product.
Did you actually pay the amounts they ask for?

- Alon
js at wsco.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Smith" <lists at benjamindsmith.com>
To: <whitebox-users at beau.org>; "Erick Perez" <eaperezh at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] monitoring strange behavior help


> On Friday 04 March 2005 05:48, Erick Perez wrote:
>> searching the logs reveal nothing strange (at least for me, but im no
> genious)
>
> Sounds like a hardware issue - stuff like this is almost *NEVER* software.
>
> As a first step: Check to make sure all your fans (esp. CPU) are good and 
> spin
> at full speed when powered up, then unplug and reconnect all cables and
> chips.  (CPU, RAM, etc) Often it can be a flaky cable or socket... Also, 
> plug
> the server into a UPS to eliminate flaky power, see if that improves 
> things.
> A cheapie 45-minute, $75 one is worlds better than none at all.
>
>> Do you know of some script or program that can alert me when unusual
>> conditions begin to happen in the server? like cpu increase? ram
>> increase? swap?
>> some process eating up resources?
>
> The grand-daddy of them all? Big Brother. It's one of my best friends! It
> polls all my servers every 5 minutes and sends alerts to my cell phone 
> when
> anything goes wrong... even when a needed process dies! http://www.bb4.org
>
> IMHO, You aren't serious about your stuff unless you are using a tool like
> this! Serious peace of mind, and customers love it when you catch 
> something
> and call before they even notice it's not working...
>
>> most importat is any way to set up some system wide "nice" level so
>> the apps do not eat up the CPU/RAM, so when the condition happens
>> again, I will at least have the chance to get in and take a look?
>
> See above re: hardware. If you think it'd help, I'd suggest writing a 
> quick
> script to write the output of top repeatedly to a file. EG:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> while [ true ] ; do
> top -n1 > /path/to/log/file.txt
> sleep 5; # minimize performance beatings
>  # set to whatever you like in seconds.
> done;
>
>> Many thanks in advance
>> -- 
>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Erick Perez
>> Linux User 376588
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